Interview: Allison Kaplan, AliShops.com

September 18, 2009 · Categories: Interviews, Minnesota, Video · View Comments 
I sat down with Pioneer Press Savvy Shopper columnist Allison Kaplan (a client) yesterday to talk about her guide to Twin Cities shopping, AliShops.com and her other online endeavors: You can find Allison online at: AliShops.com AliShopsBlog.com Her Savvy Shopper column for the Pioneer Press At Twitter On Facebook On on FM 107.1’s Shop Girls show

Making Your Content Facebook-Friendly

I’ve noticed when posting links to my Facebook account that some web pages do not display as they should. The Post Link function in Facebook uses the Title tag content of a given web page for the wording of the hyperlink it displays and uses the Meta Description tag of a given page for the [...]

Mainstream Media Inching Toward Embeddable Content

February 6, 2008 · Categories: Online Journalism, Trends, Video, Video Marketing, Viral Marketing · View Comments 
However slowly, the traditional media is beginning to make their content embeddable. I noticed a few days ago MSNBC promoting that the videos on their site were now embeddable–they claim to be the first news network to make the move. Here’s a segment on the Millennials’ role in this election cycle: MSNBC uses the IFRAME tag (which, [...]

Macworld Expo From A Journalist’s Point Of View

Pioneer Press technology columnist Julio Ojeda-Zapata has been all over the Macworld Expo and it’s been fascinating to watch him microblog on Twitter, and in addition to his tech column for the PiPress, to post to his own Your Tech Weblog and upload video of the expo to YouTube. The video gives you a great [...]

Pioneer Press Goes All Web 2.0ey

April 30, 2007 · Categories: Minnesota, Online Journalism, Trends, Web 2.0 · View Comments 
I originally published this in the 3/28/07 issue of Politics In Minnesota. Just a week removed from our stories on how technology is changing the nature of journalism and the Pioneer Press goes all Web 2.0. The change couldn’t have come sooner. Knight Ridder’s web properties have long been extremely painful to use because they all share the [...]

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